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Activities of Anna ZÁBORSKÁ related to 2013/2078(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Fundamental rights in the European Union (2012) (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2078(INI)

Amendments (20)

Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
– having regard to the guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights, adopted on 27 October 2012 by the United Nations Human Rights Council (A/HRC/21/39),
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17
– having regard to the State of the Union address by Mr Barroso to the European Parliament on 11 September 2013 and the speech by Mrs Reding on the European Union and the rule of law on 4 September 2013 at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels,deleted
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18
– having regard to the letter of 6 March 2013 sent by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands to the Commission President, Mr Barroso, calling for the establishment of a mechanism to foster compliance with fundamental values in the Member States,deleted
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
– having regard to its recommendation to the Council of 13 June 2013 on the draft EU Guidelines on the Promotion and Protection of Freedom of Religion or Belief (P7_TA(2013)027),
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the European Union is going through a period of economic and financial crisis, and also a democratic, moral and constitutional crisis, as demonstrated by recent events in certain Member States, and whereas these tensions have highlighted the lack of appropriate instruments to cope with this crisis, as well as the difficulties in applying the mechanisms provided for in the existing treaties, in particular Article 7 of the EU Treaty;
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – point e
(e) establish a new mechanism to ensure that the fundamental rights and the values of the Union referred to in Article 2 of the EU Treaty and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights are respected, protected and promoted;deleted
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that this new mechanism could be activated immediately, on the basis of a Commission decision, and that it should: (a) set indicators (FRA and Commission); (b) monitor the situation in the EU, as well as in the Member States (FRA, Commission, Council, Parliament); (c) carry out objective and comparative assessments, for each fundamental right or subject and for each Member State individually, of all instruments relating to human rights, such as the ECHR, Council of Europe and UN documents, NGOs, etc. (FRA reports, Commission annual reports, Parliament annual reports, Council annual reports); (d) establish a European policy cycle on the application of Article 2 of the EU Treaty (democracy, rule of law, fundamental rights, equality) to provide an annual and multiannual framework, and an open annual interinstitutional forum on these European values, in particular the protection of fundamental rights; (e) develop and adopt a set of recommendations and penalties (e.g. the temporary suspension of Fund commitments, the application of certain acts, etc.) to deal with violations of Article 2 and Article 7 of the EU Treaty; (f) incorporate an early-warning system, political and technical dialogue, letters of formal notice and a ‘freezing procedure’;deleted
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission, in collaboration with the FRA, to adopt a decision establishing this new mechanism, as it did for the monitoring of corruption in the EU and in the Member States, and to revise the rules of the Fundamental Rights Agency to give it enhanced powers and competences;deleted
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to propose the announced amendments to the treaties with a view to strengthening fundamental rights and revising Article 7 of the EU Treaty, drawing on Article 121 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the extension of the possibilities for redress and the powers of the Commission and the Court of Justice, a revision of the unanimity rule for amending the rules of the FRA and the deletion of Article 51 of the Charter; calls, also, for Article 7 of the EU Treaty to be substantially revised, with the addition of an ’application of Article 2 of the EU Treaty’ stage, separating the ‘risk’ stage from the ‘violation’ stage, with different thresholds for the majorities provided for, a strengthening of the technical and objective (not only political) analysis, enhanced dialogue with the Member States’ institutions and a wider range of detailed and predictable penalties which are applicable throughout the procedure; calls for Parliament to be able to launch these procedures on an equal footing with the Commission and the Council; asks for the FRA to be able to contribute its necessary specialised support to the procedure;deleted
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines the need to avoid unilateral interpretations of the principle of non-discrimination and rejects the attempt to grant to article 2 of the Treaty and article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights a preeminent role compared with other (equally important) provisions of the Treaty and the Charter;
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. reaffirms the sovereign right of each Member State to implement the proposals of the present resolution in conformity with its own Constitution and national laws, with full respect for the various religious and ethical values and cultural backgrounds of its people (Public Policy Doctrine) and in conformity with universally recognized international human rights;
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the fact that a growing number of Member States are respecting the right to found a family through marriage, civil partnership or registered cohabitation and adoption, without discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, and calls on the Commission and all Member States to adopt legislation and policies to combat homophobia, transphobia and hate crimes; reiterates its calls for the Commission to draw up a European roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identityCalls on the Commission and Member States to assess carefully whether there is a genuine need for new legislative instruments and to adopt, where necessary, legislation and policies to combat homophobia, transphobia and hate crimes;
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. is alarmed by the fact that the concept of 'hate speech' (including the use of the term 'homophobia'), whilst not yet defined within the acquis communautaire, is invoked and instrumentalised to restrict legitimate manifestation of freedom of expression, freedom of religion and of freedom of conscience;
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Reminds that the fundamental right to conscientious objection is enshrined in art 10 (2) of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and that the practice of conscientious objection is adequately regulated in the EU Member States by a comprehensive and clear legal and policy framework governing the practice of conscientious objection ;
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Recalls - with regard to the principle of "Public Policy Doctrine" and internationally accepted standards - that parents or legal guardians of a child have the liberty to ensure that their children receive an education in conformity with their own convictions, the best interests of the child being the guiding principle; recalls that the right of parents to educate their children according to their religious or non-religious convictions includes their right to deny any undue interference by state or non-state actors in their education;
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15c (new)
15c. Reminds that EU and Member States must take into account the rights and duties of the parents, legal guardians, or other individuals legally responsible for the child ; calls the Member States to pay special attention to the relationships between parents and children, for example through programmes containing concrete measures specifically tailored to national requirements, seeking to provide maximum and optimum assistance for parents or guardians in the fulfilment of their parental duties in order to prevent family breakdown, children mistreatment and placement in social care as a result of serious poverty or ensure that such a measure is envisaged only as a very last resort ;
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Condemns racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and xenophobic violence and violence against migrants, which have reached alarming levels in certain Member States, in the absence of strong action by the authorities;
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Takes the view that extreme poverty is a violation of fundamental rights, characterised by an accumulation of violations that mutually reinforce each other, locking people into a vicious circle;
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Calls upon national and European institutions to celebrate 17 October as United Nations Day for the Eradication of Poverty, by involving those NGOs in which the socially excluded are able to express themselves freely;
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 c (new)
20c. Reiterates as a matter of urgency its appeal to the Council to include the topic 'Access by the poorest groups to all of their fundamental rights' in the thematic areas of the Agency for Fundamental Rights' next Multi-annual Framework;
2013/11/13
Committee: LIBE